Patrick Michaud will be giving a talk on Rakudo Star and on the arrival of a working Perl 6 implementation.

From the abstract: "Rakudo Perl 6 is an implementation of a Perl 6 compiler on top of the Parrot virtual machine. In April 2010, the Rakudo Perl team will be releasing "Rakudo Star", a usable and useful implementation of Perl 6."

Martin Berends will be giving a talk entitled: 'Perl 6 Implementations in March 2010' - which will give us a bleeding edge view on Perl 6 implementations. Martin will be driving up from the Dutch Perl Workshop so we expect to get the latest new from Martin.

Carl Mäsak is one of the people behind November - a wiki written in Perl 6 and one of the first, if not the first real application written in Perl 6. Carl will be giving a talk entitled 'Only Perl can parse Perl 6' - a topic which bears resemblance to a statement which can still can get Perl 5 hackers out of their chairs. We are happy to have Carl joining the hackathon.

Moritz Lenz will give a talk entitled '‎Parsing with Perl 6'. Moritz Lenz is one of the Perl6/Rakudo developers, which is going to help us during the hackathon so we can get the most out of the short time span we have - looking forward to having Moritz visit us in Copenhagen...